Electric motor with low voltage lighting taps



D 15, 1936- J. M. HAUL 2,064,680

ELECTRIC MCTOR WITH LOW VOLTAGE LIGHTING TAPS Filed April 23, 1955 2 sheets-sheet 1 awe/Moo Jame-9 MNaul Wifwe5$= I i Dec. 15, 1936. J NAUL 2,064,680

ELECTRIC MCTOR WITH LOW VOLTAGE LIGHTING TAPS Filed April 25, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 3mm James M Na/ul v piiwe Patented Dec. 15, 1936 ELECTRIC MIgTOB wrrn Low vouracs GHTING TAPS James M. Nani, Fanwood, N. J., assignor to The Singer Manufacturing Company, Elizabeth,

Application April 23,

' 4 Claims.

This invention relates to the electric lighting of machines driven by electric motors. It has heretofore been proposed to use for machine,

lighting purposes, lamps of lower voltage than 5 that customarily distributed for general lighting purposes, as such low voltage lamps have strong filaments and resist rough usage. To avoid the necessity of providing an additional low voltage distributing system or a multiplicity of spe- 10 cial low-voltage lighting transformers, it has also been proposed to provide the individual machinedriving motors with one or more taps from which a low voltage current may be obtained for operating an individual low-voltage lamp.

Diiilculties have however, been experienced in providing satisfactory illumination by use of these expedients as it is found that in many cases the illumination fluctuates to a troublesome extent when the load on the motor is varied and o particularly when the load is suddenly thrown onto the motor, as in the operation of a sewing machine by an electric power-transmitter of the manually operated friction clutch type, such as represented in the application of W. J. Peets 25 et al., Serial No. 702,288, filed Dec. 14, 1933.

The present invention has for an object to provide a self-starting single-phase alternating current motor suitable for-use with an individual clutch mechanism for the control of a sew- 30 ing machine and having low voltage lighting taps so contrived that voltage fluctuations in the lighting circuit are reduced to a minimum and are substantially independent of load variations and/or the direction of rotation of the motor.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear, the invention comprises the devices, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings of a preferred embodiment of the invention, from which the several features of the invention and the advantages attained thereby will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

I have discovered that the desired ends may 45 be attained by taking the low-voltage taps from the main or exciting stator winding of the motor a: as to bridge only turns of a coil which is arranged symmetrically relative to the magnetic center of a polar group of coils and is at least so as large as any other coil of said group. The

coil or fraction thereof bridgedby the low-voltage taps must'be disposed symmetrically relative to the magnetic center of the polar group of coils of which it forms a part and must span as large 55 a portion of the polar area as possible; being of N.'J., a corporation of New Jersey 1935, Serial No. 17.761

at least asgreat a span as any other coil of the polar group.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a single phase condenser motor embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the tapped stator winding of the motor shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a diagram of a modifled central coil of one of the polar groups of coils of the main winding shown in Fig. 2. Fig, 4 is a diagrammatic view of a single phase repulsion induction motor embodying the invention, and Fig. 5 is a diagram of the tapped stator winding of the motor shown in Fig. 4.

The motor of Figs. 1, 2and 8 has the usual squirrel cage rotor i and main stator winding 2 connected to the line Lila. Disposed in electrical quadrature with the main winding 2 is the auxiliary winding 3 which may be connected in series with the condenser 4 across the terminals of the main winding 2 to produce the desired starting torque in the rotor; the rotor torque being reversible by reversing the connections to either the main or auxiliary windings, as is well understood.

By referring to Fig. 2 it will be observed that the main winding 2 and auxiliary winding 3 which is in quadrature therewith are of the type known as lap windings, being each composed of an odd number or five coils of uniform span arranged in polar groups one of which is indicated at 5 having its magnetic center at N within such 'group.. The low voltage lighting taps 6 connected to the main winding 2 bridge only the center coil 1 of the polar group 5 of coils; the center coil I being symmetrically disposed relative to the magnetic center N of the coil group 5. In case the voltage =developed across the center coil 1 is too low, the number of turns therein must be increased. If the voltage is too high taps 6' bridging only a fraction of the total number of turns of the center coil I may be taken 01!, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that where the number of turns of the main winding bridged by the low voltage lighting taps are arranged symmetrically with respect to the magnetic center of a polar group of main winding coils, a reactionary shift of the field under load conditions will be the same with respect to the tapped coil regardless of the direction of a rotation of the motor,'and where the span of the tapped coil is at least as great as the span of any other coil of the winding, the fluctuation of the low voltage under load conditions of the motor will not be troublesome.

Inl'igatandlioithedrawingmtheinvention isshownasembodiedinamotoroitherepulsion induction type having an armature I with short circuited commutator brushes 8. The main excitingwindingisshownat ilandisconnected tothe line Lilo. 'Ihemainwinding llisoithe type having polar groups of concentric coils, one oi such groups being indicated at H. In the particular instance shown there are three coih i2, is, H per polar group. These coils are each symmetrically disposed relative to the magnetic center 8 embraced thereby but are otdiflermt spans, the inner coil II spanning two stator teeth, the intermediate coil l3 spanning tour stator teeth and the outer coil ll spanning six stator teeth. Hence the outer coil I4 is selected for the low-voltage lighting taps Ii which may bridge asmanyturnsoithecoil Ilasmaybenecesa'ry to obtain the desired low voltage. In the drawings the entire coil I4 is shown as bridged bytbe low voltage taps ll. The starting torque and direction of rotation of the rotor l are, of course, controlled by the position or the short-circuited brushes I.

While I have diagrammatically shown a lamp asconnectedtothelighting flnltand llinl'igs.

2 and 5, respectively, it will be understood that the motor is ordinarily supplied by the manui'acturer with the low-voltage lighting taps only, connected to the main winding in the predeter-- mined relation to the coils thereof as hereinbefore explained.

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